A39669:111
The Method of Grace
The method of grace, in bringing home the eternal redemption contrived by the Father, and accomplished by the Son through the effectual application of the spirit unto God's elect, being the second part of Gospel redemption : wherein the great mystery of our union and communion with Christ is opened and applied, unbelievers invited, false pretenders convicted, every mans claim to Christ examined, and the misery of Christless persons discovered and bewailed / by John Flavell ...The method of grace, in bringing home the eternal redemption contrived by the Father, and accomplished by the Son through the effectual application of the spirit unto God's elect, being the second part of Gospel redemption : wherein the great mysterie of our union and communion with Christ is opened and applied, unbelievers invited, false pretenders convicted, every mans claim to Christ examined, and the misery of Christless persons discovered and bewailed / by John Flavell ...
London: printed by M. White for Francis Tyton, 1681
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
In which words we have an Enumeration of the chief privileges of believers, and an Account of the method whereby they come to be invested with them.
In which words we have an Enumeration of the chief priviledges of believers, and an Account of the method whereby they come to be invested with them.
First, Their privileges are enumerated, namely, wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, mercies of 1inestimable value in themselves; and such as respect a fourfold ⟨p. 3⟩misery lying upon sinful man• viz. Ignorance, guilt▪ pollution, and the whole […] of miserable consequences and effects let in upon the nature of men, yea the best and holiest of men by sin.
First, Their priviledges are enumerated, namely, wisdome, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, mercies of 1inestimable value in themselves; and such as respect a fourfold ⟨p. 3⟩misery lying upon sinful man• viz. Ignorance, guilt▪ pollution, and the whole 〈…〉 of miserable consequences and effects let in upon the nature of men, yea the best and holiest of men by sin.
- 11. Quatuor Christo •logia hic adscribit, quae totam ejus virtutem, & quicquid ab ipso bonorum recipimus complectuntur. Calv. in loc.